In their drive to promote and catalog (npi) underground electronic music, Dream Catalogue’s discography has been a bit uneven. This impression feels doubly so in light of the label — which initially rose to fame for popularizing the ​“vaporwave” genre — changing ownership last year. Ever since then, the label’s been in hyperdrive, releasing a slew of music ranging from grim, frenetic jungle (wosX, DJ Ray-Xans) to noisy, lo-fi rock (Werewolf Hair) to abstract beat collages (Metagyndes).

But even though Dream Catalogue’s output can lean towards the latter in the quality/​quantity spectrum, the London-based label remains one of the more interesting and compelling electronic labels out there — and Silk Demon’s The Embrace Between the Circus and the Sky is a good example of why.

Album opener ​“Levitate Away From Here” is more than aptly titled; listening to it makes you feel like you’re soaring over Blade Runner​’s cityscape just as the sunrise breaks through the smog for the first time in ages. Somber glass-like tones shimmer and resonate throughout ​“Sad Fortune“ ​‘s nine minutes like you’re walking through an alien cathedral while ​“Moon Blossom” strikes a balance between contemplative and vaguely unsettling.

Delicate arpeggios and tones pulse and cluster on ​“We Lied,” but even as you strain to hear them — by the way, this album practically demands to be listened to on headphones — reverberating beats constantly threaten to overwhelm the song from somewhere in the background. The album ends with ​“Kiss the Earth,” which evokes Makeup & Vanity Set’s cyberpunk-influenced sound (albeit in a more ephemeral form) as soft synth pads count down to the song’s ambiguous final moments.

My earlier phrase — ​“a balance between contemplative and vaguely unsettling” — applies to much of The Embrace Between the Circus and the Sky. Yes, the music on this album is certainly dreamlike (again, npi) in the finest Dream Catalogue fashion, but I make no guarantee as to what kind of dreams you’ll have as a result of listening to it. But chances are, they’ll be quite unlike most dreams you have.